[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 42 (Wednesday, March 4, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10588-10589]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-5592]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 8-98]


Foreign-Trade Zone 151--Findlay, Ohio, Application for Expansion

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) 
Board (the Board) by the Community Development Foundation (CDF), 
grantee of FTZ 151, Findlay, Ohio, requesting authority to expand its 
zone in Findlay, Ohio, within the Toledo-Sandusky Customs port of 
entry. The application was submitted pursuant to the provisions of the 
FTZ Act, as amended (19 U.S.C. 81a-81u), and the regulations of the 
Board (15 CFR part 400). It was formally filed on February 20, 1998.
    FTZ 151 was approved on July 6, 1988 (Board Order 389, 53 F.R. 
27058, 7/18/88). The general-purpose zone currently consists of 160 
acres at the Tall Timbers Industrial Center, intersection of State 
Route 12 and County Road 95, Findlay. In a separate pending application 
(FTZ Doc. 85-97), the CDF has requested that the FTZ Board reissue the 
grant of authority for FTZ 151 to the Findlay/Hancock County Chamber of 
Commerce.
    The applicant is now requesting authority to expand the existing 
FTZ site and to add a new general-purpose site to its FTZ project as 
follows: Site 1--add 660 acres to the existing 160 acre zone site at 
the Tall Timbers Industrial Center; and, Proposed Site 2 (53 acres)--
Ball Metal Container Group general-purpose warehouse facility, 12340 
Township Road 99 East, Findlay. Proposed Site 2 would be used for 
warehousing/distribution activities related to Ball Metal's business as 
well as for multi-tenant public warehousing activities. The proposed 
change would increase Site 1 to 820 acres and the zone overall to 873 
acres. FTZ status will make the sites eligible for special Customs 
procedures and may also make the sites eligible for benefits provided 
under state/local programs. No specific manufacturing requests are 
being made at this time. Such requests would be made to the Board on a 
case-by-case basis.
    In accordance with the Board's regulations, a member of the FTZ 
Staff has been designated examiner to investigate the application and 
report to the Board.
    Public comment on the application is invited from interested 
parties. Submissions (original and 3 copies) shall be addressed to the 
Board's Executive Secretary at the address below. The closing period 
for their receipt is May 4, 1998. Rebuttal comments in response to 
material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during 
the subsequent 15-day period (to May 18, 1998).
    A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be 
available for public inspection at each of the following locations:

Office of the Findlay/Hancock County Chamber of Commerce, Room No. 1,

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123 E. Main Cross Street, Findlay, Ohio 45840
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 
3716, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th & Pennsylvania 
Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230

    Dated: February 24, 1998.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-5592 Filed 3-3-98; 8:45 am]
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